India, July 28 -- President Donald Trump claimed on Monday that ex-FBI director James Comey or former Attorney General Merrick Garland might have placed his name into the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Trump spoke to reporters in Turnberry, Scotland, where he was asked, "You had said you had not been briefed that your name was in the Epstein files, doesn't the AG have to tell you?"

In response, Trump said, "Well, I haven't been overly interested in it. It's a hoax that's been built up by those, way beyond proportion. Those files were run by the worst scum on earth. They were run by Comey, they were fun by Garland, they were run by Biden. Those files were run for four years by those people."

"The whole thing is a hoax. They ran the files. I was...